I could possibly find freeware to do this task, but I wouldn't in general trust freeware for business purposes.

Howard A Moon,
Antares Audio Technologies

The reason I chose Resource Tuner was simply that it works - I had previously been using Borland's Resource Workshop for my work, which is (non-commercial) localisation, but I had been having difficulty using it with Far Eastern locales. The evaluation version of Resource Tuner, on the other hand, worked perfectly, and I was startled at how cheap it was to register (I would normally expect to pay at least twice as much for a program of this quality).

Windows executable files (EXE, DLL, ActiveX controls) can have all sorts of resources buried within them. Resource Tuner enables you to get at them to modify, save or delete
them. Resources include the applications graphics, icons, cursors, dialog boxes and text. You can view resources, even playing sound and video files. You can have a lot of fun with this, especially when you start experimenting with Windows files.

Take a look at some of the best features in Resource Tuner that help you edit files easier and faster:

Advanced Features

Resource optimizing, error checking and repairing automatically performed when opening a file.

Application Manifest Wizard inserts the manifest resource in existing applications - an easy way for legacy applications take advantage of the new look for common control styles on Windows XP and Vista.

Automatic UPX unpacking. Now you can open files compressed with UPX even without knowing that: your file will be unpacked automatically!

You can navigate easily through the Delphi forms, RCData, and objects, and view their contents (Image Lists, Strings List, Glyphs, Bitmaps). There's a very strong emphasis on peeking inside Delphi applications and packages.

Resource Tuner offers a thorough look at all of the resources (bitmaps, jpeg, icons, strings, dialogs, PNG, PNG compressed Vista icons, XML, Image Lists, Type Library, etc) in the compiled executable file, and allows you to make modifications without needing to recompile the source code. You can view and extract images, icons, sounds, animations - all you have found in your application - on your hard disk. That makes Resource Tuner a perfect resource grabber. Don't take our words for granted, see What Our Users Say.